EDWARD FENTON ad. 



1582. 



aboord our severall ships, where 1 found the Portugals 

 and Negros, who had dined, and after supped aboord 

 with mee. 



The 2 of September we set saile at sixe of the clock 

 in the morning, & went out West betweene 7 and 10 

 fathom, with a pretie gale at East til 8, then it waxed 

 caJme, wee being shot out of the harbour a league and 

 a halfe. It continued calme this day till one in the 

 afternoone, and then it blewe up at Westsouthwest a 

 good gale, so wee stood off Northnorthwest, and North- 

 west till 5 in the afternoone, then wee ankered in 

 12 fathom, being 6 leagues off the point West by 

 North. 



The 3 day about eight a clocke in the forenoone, the They retume 

 General! came aboord to mee, complaining that his maine ^^ ^^f^'^'^i ^^ona 

 crosse-trees were broken, and therefore determined to ^^^^"^' 

 goe into Sierra leona againe when the winde blewe : at 

 12 at noone wee set saile, and went in Eastsoutheast, 

 and Southeast, and Southsoutheast, being carried to the 

 Northward with the flood. And at 7 at night wee 

 ankered in eight fathom three leagues off the entrance, 

 Westnorthwest. 



The 1 2 day came downe the river a boate with three Trafique with 



other Portugals, with whom the General bargained, to let ^J/"^^'-^^^^^' 



them have 3 barrels of salt for 5 barrels of rice, and after \ i^zvis' 



that rate to exchange for 40 barrels, which hee acquainted Henriques a 



mee with : afterwards I dined among the Portugals with dweller here 



him : after dinner I went on shoare to the oven, and ^^^"^^ ^° 



to the carpenters. After I had bene on shoare and scene \ Matthew 



the worke there, I returned aboord, & there supped with Fernandas 



mee the Generall, M. Maddox, Captaine Hawkins, and Captahe. 



seven Portugals : after supper each man returned to his 3 ^^^^'^ ^<^^ 



1 pilot, 



place. ^ 



The 13 in the afternoone, the Portugals came againe 



aboord me, and brake their fast with me : after I sent 



by them up the river in my skiffe 12 barrels of salt, 



and gave them a bottell of wine for one of the savage 



Queenes. 



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